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Another jockey paid income-tax on £10,000 a year, and a thousand pounds is not at all an uncommon sum to be paid merely as a retainer. Forty or fifty years ago a jockey would not have dreamed of facing his employer otherwise than cap in hand, but the value of stable-boys has gone up in the market, and Lear's fool might now say, "Handy-Dandy! Who is your jockey now and who is your master?"
For answer hereto, when the honest old man had forthwith commanded pen, paper, and ink to be brought unto him, and that he was at the same call conveniently served with all the three, he wrote these following verses: Take, or not take her, Off, or on: Handy-dandy is your lot. When her name you write, you blot.
The most intransigent of modern revolutionaries might learn a trick or two from this sacred poet. In Lear he puts the very voice of Anarchy into the mouth of the King "Die for adultery? No!" "Handy-dandy, which is the Magistrate and which is the Thief?" "A dog's obeyed in office." Have I succeeded in making clear what I feel about the Shakespearean attitude? At bottom, it is absolutely sceptical.
'And when he plays at Handy-dandy, Jack-a-dandy, which will you have, upper hand or lower? if you happen to guess right, he slips whatever you are playing with into his other hand; and that you know is not playing fair; and so many of the boys tell him; but he does not mind any of us. And as he is clever at his learning, and always does his exercise quite right, Mr.
This is rather an important mistake, to be sure, if it be a mistake. "Change places," cries poor Lear, "change places, and handy-dandy, which is the justice and which the thief?" So our learned opponents say, "Change places, and, handy-dandy, which is the governor and which the rebel?" The aspect of the case is, as I have said, novel.
But the young fellow holds out; you cannot play handy-dandy with a king's crown, your Majesty! say his new Ministers. Is and will continue King. "Not a bad stroke of him," thinks Schulenburg, "especially if his Father meant to play him the same trick," that is, clap him in prison. Not a bad stroke; which perhaps there is another that could imitate, "if HIS Papa gave him the opportunity!
See how yon justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark in thine ear: Change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? King Lear.
To think of brave men's lives being risked in these twopenny errands, and a heart of Oak brought to the gallows, that clowns may get drunk the cheaper, or traitors for your Jacobite conspirators were but handy-dandy Judases, now to King James and now to King George exchange their rubbishing ciphers the easier! It drives me wild to think of these pinchbeck enterprises.
Look with thine ears. See how yon justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark in thine ear: Change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? King Lear.
Look with thine ears: See how yon justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark in thine ear change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief? King Lear.
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